“20,000 euros of loss since the start of the year”: 3 years after “nightmare in the kitchen” on M6, Marie-Laure and Patrice are launching “a call for help” to save their restaurant, Le Guillec, in Plouzévédé

The COVVI-19 health crisis has plunged hundreds of restaurants in an untenable situation. For example, The Guillec restaurant in Plouzévédé (Finistère) almost went to the AS. Consequently, counted on Philippe Etchebest and the “nightmare in the kitchen” teams to save Marie-Laure Cabioch, manager of the establishment with her husband Patrice Cabioch, chef employee for ten years, of the bankruptcy. Therefore, Armed with its full -bodied methods. However, precious advice, the strong head of “Top Chef” went to Brittany in January 2022, and spent a week there to straighten the situation. Nevertheless, The episode. Furthermore, broadcast for the first time in March of the same year, will be rebroadcast this Friday, August 8, 2025 at 10:50 p.m. Consequently, on M6 Friday, and will see the best worker in France pointing flaws in the organization “20,000 euros loss since start of this family institution.

A revival of activity … Nevertheless, then the tumble

“The problems came mainly from our organization. We had taken up, in 2015, the restaurant created in 1971 by my mother and grandmother. I had to take off, in fact”reported, with hindsight, Marie-Laure Cabioch at the media “Actu.fr”. “He has given us many and good advice. Like that of sometimes knowing how to refuse people to welcome customers and serve them well. Or close one day in the week “added the mother of a little boy. delighted with this “Nice meeting with a beautiful person”. Following this prime-time exhibition (3.3 million viewers). the restaurant had climbed up to 100 covers per service, and displayed complete for almost a year and a half.

But the new wind breathed by the show has faded. The crowd has dropped. around forty customers on average, and the turnover of 2024 is “20,000 euros loss since start far from that of the 50,000 euros per month recorded just after the passage of Philippe Etchebest. “We are already at least 20. 000 euros in loss since the start of 2025”sighs the desperate patron today in the pages of “Telegram”. The situation has become so critical that the Guillec manager had to reduce his salary in half the last five months to provide for difficulties. and pass “A call for help” on social networkson August 1. “People are convinced that from ‘nightmare in the kitchen’, we ride on gold … but not at all”she deplores everyday.

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“We will not last long like that”

Its bottle at sea was nevertheless picked up by residents of the Finistère. local village. “We had great reactions, people were very “20,000 euros loss since start benevolent. A lady from Morlaix will come to help us manage our communication. others have booked for a baptism this week, other restaurateurs supported us”rejoices Marie-Laure Cabioch, happy to be able to count on an influx of reservations and the help of apprentice cooks. But the balance of his establishment is due to a thread: “Even if we want to continue. we will not last long like that”.